Will our young, revamped Chicago Bulls surprise some skeptics this season?
Everyone knows Caleb Wilson has all the tools necessary to be incredible out of the gate. While new executive vice president of basketball operations Bryson Graham’s hiring of several former fellow New Orleans Pelicans staffers doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence per se, the addition of new head coach Tiago Splitter is plenty exciting. Can the other new names help the whole become better than the sum of its parts?
Bulls Bullets — September 26, 2026
No Ceilings’ Tyler Rucker and Tyler Metcalf take a look at the Bulls’ impending 2026-27 season. Chicago has brought in rookies Caleb Wilson and Dailyn Swain, while signing All-Star shooting guard Norman Powell and trading for center Nicolas Claxton. Powell, Wilson, and Claxton will suit up alongside incumbent starters Josh Giddey and Matas Buzelis. Both Rucker and Metcalf are very, very high on Wilson — but Rucker is a bit more skeptical about the rest of the roster. The Bulls unveiled their entire training camp roster earlier this week, featuring five new signings! All five will compete for the team’s final available two-way slot, plus affiliate deals with the Windy City Bulls. Joe Cowley of The REKAP takes a look at five Chicago players worth a watch during training camp — which tips off on Tuesday. The Bulls’ five-game preseason slate starts on Oct. 7, a tilt against the Phoenix Suns. Everyone from Powell to second-year forward Noa Essengue, a former lottery pick who essentially redshirted last season thanks to a shoulder surgery, merits mention from Cowley. Cowley notes that Powell invited younger Bulls players to his house in Las Vegas, where he makes his offseason home, to The Bulls themselves got into the 2026-27 swing of things, with a new 22-minute video highlighting the arrivals of Wilson, Swain, and Graham.Inside the start of a new era of Chicago Bulls basketball: pic.twitter.com/k90m3J26xm
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) September 26, 2026 Bulls point guard Josh Giddey is putting his $100 million salary to good use. Per Somer Van Benton of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Josh Giddey Foundation and the Bulls have partnered to create a fresh game room at the Ronald McDonald House, a non-profit organization for families with ailing kids, at Lurie Children’s Hospital.Families staying at the Ronald McDonald House at Lurie Children’s Hospital have a new game room sponsored by Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey. t.co/W1DskK9WPO
— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) September 25, 2026“It’s a colorful game room with a lot of Chicago Bulls and Australia-themed activities,” the Aussie-born Giddey said. “It means the world to me.”
Our Chicago Sky’s 2026 season ended with a third straight missed playoff run… and a third straight offloaded lottery pick. As Alissa Hirsh of the Chicago Sun-Times notes, owner Michael Alter needs to consider making some dramatic changes this year. Head coach Tyler Marsh has led the Sky to a combined 26-62 record across his two seasons with the team.What is principal owner Michael Alter’s plan for getting the Sky to compete in a bigger, better WNBA? I think it starts with him owning up to his mistakes. t.co/nmEivIeuCL
— Alissa Hirsh (@AlissaHirsh) September 25, 2026 Put simply, it’s time for GM Jeff Pagliocca to hit the road, after draft mismanagement so bad it would make Ted Stepien blush. The Sky flipped Angel Reese to the Atlanta Dream for a pair of non-lottery picks in the offseason. Reese helped Atlanta to the WNBA’s No. 4 seed and became a fringe All-WNBA honoree. The almost-guaranteed Rookie of the Year, Minnesota Lynx point guard Olivia Miles, was selected with the Sky’s No. 2 pick — acquired when Chicago traded swap rights with the Lynx to move up and draft Reese in 2024. Reese’s Dream will play the rising Washington Mystics in the first round of the postseason. Washington is led by second-year All-Stars Kiki Iriafen and Sonia Citron. Citron, not incidentally, was selected with the Sky’s No. 3 pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft — which Chicago had traded away in its ill-fated deal for Ariel Atkins. The Sky don’t have control of their own lottery pick until 2029 (the Mystics have swap rights with them for 2027, and outright possess their top pick in ’28 thanks to the Jacy Sheldon trade this offseason). Pagliocca also overpaid for a pair of aging former All-Star point guards, Skylar Diggins ($950K) and Courtney Vandersloot ($750K) — a decision that may have prompted him to ignore reigning UCLA champion Kiki Rice in the 2026 WNBA Draft and instead select her toolsy wing teammate, Gabriela Jaquez… whom head coach Tyler Marsh gave up on entirely by the end of the year. Undrafted rookie wing Sydney Taylor, however, has been good enough to at least warrant All-Rookie Team consideration. Will Pagliocca re-sign her in free agency this offseason? Back to Alter — as Hirsh points out, the team has been dragging its heels on the construction of a new Bedford Park practice facility that was supposed to be done in time for the Chicago-based WNBA All-Star Game this season. Oops. He may need to part ways with both Marsh and Pagliocca sooner rather than later, as fan patience wanes even while interest in the sport continues to grow. Two-time MVP point guard Stephen Curry has re-upped with the Golden State Warriors. Shams Charania of ESPN reports that the 11-time All-Star has agreed to a two-season, $116 million contract extension — $20 million less than what he could have made from the franchise, per ESPN’s Bobby Marks. Curry will have a player option for the last year of the deal, 2028-29 — when he would turn 41. Per the Third Apron’s Yossi Gozlan, this would see Golden State generating $64 million in available cap space circa 2027. Of course, Curry would be 39 at this point. The extension will put Curry’s on-court earnings at $652 million by the end of the deal — the most in league history, $54 million north of his former champion Warriors teammate Kevin Durant’s $598 million. The start of the NBA season, of course, also coincides with the kick-off of NBA 2K27. To celebrate, Philadelphia 76ers point guard Labaron Philon Jr. was locked into a truck outside Geno’s in South Philadelphia as part of NBA Take-Two Media’s “Stuck in the Truck” series. Philon’s mission: to play the latest installment of the contest until he could score 1,000 points. Philon competed against Philadelphia’s own Gillie Da Kid, Freeway, 2Rare, and others. On the court this season, the first-round draft pick will compete for minutes behind All-Star starting point guard Tyrese Maxey, on a loaded club that also boasts All-Rookie First Team shooting guard V.J. Edgecombe, All-NBA small forward Jaylen Brown, All-Star power forward LeBron James, former MVP center Joel Embiid, and bench guard Anfernee Simons.BULLS ON BLEACHER NATION: Go Ad Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
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